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IFAb® Tajlor RmUIi Arrest. -He Is Afterward* Captured.nnAlamosa, Colo., Jan. 20.—What Is probably a deliberate murder occurred here yesterday at 1 o’clock, and Charles H. Emerson, the plucky marshal of Alamosa. Is lying at the point of death at his home with a bullet wound through his lung. lie received a tele-ng gram from W. Neff, La Jura, to lookont for a man with a stolen load of is oats.of At the noon hour a man answering the description drove into the yard at the mill with a four-horse team and a *big load of grain. The marshal found tre him inquiring the price of oats at Ger- rse tren’s store, arrested him, took awaye- j his gun and accompanied him to the mill to put away the team. The fellow, id w*JOSe name is Abe Taylor, offered no j *Qe resistance, but remarked that ho would clIL ; not be put in jail. 1a A young fellow named William t-' Thompson rode from La Jam on the load, and, as the man was ostensibly 1ae i c^m^lng on the wagon, handed him a rag six-shooter, which he at once fired at tve the marshal, who stood only half a {in dozen feet away. The fire was return- (, ed until both men emptied their guns e7 as they backed away from each other.[*• Emerson fell at the third shot, but shotj twice after at the retreating man, who lt;as ran west a few hundred yards, where say he met a man on horseback, whom ho \in ordered off at the point of his nowu- empty revolver, mounted the horsoand rode south and west.He was followed by a posse and cap-3(1 turc.*d this morning near Sunflower byI Deputy Sheriff Cooper. •to Marshal Emeivon’s condition Is crltl-?o cal and there is hut slight chance that*r; j he can recover.Some talk of lynching has been In-: dnlged in but .Sheriff Garcia declares 'idnoasr.n that he will protect the prisoner.
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Meeker Herald
Meeker, Colorado, US
Sat, Jan 26, 1895
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